Gábor Presser

Gábor Presser (born 27 May 1948) is a Kossuth Prize winning Hungarian musician, composer, singer.

He was a band member in Locomotiv GT and Omega, and has been a prominent personality in Hungarian pop and rock music.

Gábor Presser started playing the piano at the age of four, the pianist Imre Antal also acknowledged the child's talents and predicted that he would become a great artist.

Presser later reflected to these memories in his song Plafon, which Lajos Parti Nagy wrote the text.

After Presser left the band (1971) he played again live with his bandmates on the Omega–LGT–Beatrice tour in 1980, at the 25 year anniversary concert in 1987, and later in 1994 and 1999.

Since the 1970s Presser has written music for and collaborated with many Hungarian artists such as Sarolta Zalatnay, Ferenc Demjén, András Kern, Gyula Vikidál, Zorán, Kati Kovács, Klári Katona, and Sándor Révész.

Post LGT years Presser started a new theatre production, which resulted in ‘A padlás’ (The Attic) in 1988.

The first real Presser album was released in 1994 titled ‘Csak dalok’ (‘Only Tunes’) that was followed by  Kis történetek  (‘Little Stories’) in 1996.

Presser had 9 full house nights at the Comedy Theatre of Budapest in 1995, after them he stopped performing until 2001 when he did a 50 concert tour (this was recorded on CD/DVD).

In the two years that followed, Presser worked on a 74-minute album that was released in 2011, which consists of Lajos Parti Nagy’s poetry made into music.

In May 2016 songwriter Gábor Presser filed a lawsuit seeking $2.5 million in damages for copyright infringement for the use of the sample.